Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-25

there at the request OF lniluentiai ueiuo'
cratic conpressmen. In talking aDout these
f,c,s at the Capitol this morning 81 oiG-
lime democratic congressman from ooGlh-
ern State said the blame was none tne iess
the Presidents, and that II MT. Cleveland
we're like General Jackson, both Inc puoic
nrinter aud the commissioner oil pensions
wonld soon he informed that they, and not
members Of Congress-. were responsible 1or
the management of their respective ohces,
and that unless they saw that the WORK
thereof was done by e1hclent sonie
body else would.
A Washingtonian, in talking to-day about
Mr. Corcoran, said that Notwithstanding all
that gentleman had done for Washington,
he doubted if there ever was q man who re-
ceiyed less thanks from the people ofthe city.
Continuing, he said there is hardly city, or
even a town, throughout the South that mas
not in some way experienced the benefits OF
Mr.. Corcoran's unpublished charity Elf.
Corcoran and ex Senator r. NJ. L. Hunter,
of Virginia, one of Mr.. Calhoun's colleagues
in Congress, expected to have gone 10
Charleston Yesterday to attend the rnvei!'
ing of the Calhoun statue there to morrow,
but both were prevented by the indlsposi'
ton incident to extreme old age.
As anticipated in this correspondence "a.
F M. Bilingslea, Of Manchester, Virginia.
was today commissioned as inspector OF
furniture of public buildings under the con-
troll of the Treasury Department, at salary
of So 900 year and trayslinSS1 IS 55esfse,
!. republican, who Is in the city to day, says
the recent democratic defeat in Trenton,
the first for many years, was occasioned by
the refusal of the democratic Governor OF
the State to preside at an Irish anti-coeIcion
meeting there. If that be so, Senator Sher-
man, who refused to attend similar meet
ing here, has q bad show fo: the next presi
dency.
The congregation of st. John S church,
the most toney church here, are all agog, be-
cause they have Just heard that Mrs. Whit
ney wished them turned out of the gallery
of that church upon the occasion OF the
christening of her baby 1t appears that
she desired the christening at home, but that
Dr. Leonard, the rector. objected unless she
was sick At her request it was then agreed
that nobody should be admitted to the floor
of the church except those holding tickets.
Just before the christening took place she
looked at the crowded galleries, and asked
that they be cleared, as she knew none OF
the people there. This request the rector
declined upon the ground that the people
she saw composed the congregation OF the
church, who always lad right TO a seat
therein.
A gentleman here to-day who saw Sir
Edward Thornton at the Clarendon Hotel
in New York last night, Gays Sir Edward
observed the usual English reticence about
his business. but that when pressed, he init
mated that he did not think the foreign
creditors OF Virginia would agree TO settle
their claims upon the Identical terms of the
Riddleberger bill He hoped, he said, that
Virginia would modify those terms in some
particulars SO as to render them acceptable
TO the creditors.
1t is said to-day that exSpeaker Keller
has positively declined to deliver the ad:.
dress upon the occasion Of the unyeiling oil
the Garfield statue here. But those who
know Mr.. Kefer best say wild horses could
not keep him from making that address
though he knows as well as any body else
that none save himself wants him TO do SO.
1t is understood here that there is amove-
ment on foot, chiefly, as yet, among the sol
der element at the North, to make General
Sheridan the republican candidate for the
next Presidency.
The U. S. Supreme Court to-day. by
unanimous opinion in another case, praciI-
cally decided the constitutionality of the
interstate commerce bill.
Col. Fred Skinner, after having been kept
waiting two years by promises of = consulate, was
finally told by Secretary Bayard that he was too
old to be appointed. The Colonel retired with
his invariable grace, taking occasion however be-
fore doing so, to say 10 the Secretary, well, l
am year younger than Bob Mclean, whom you
appointed Minister 10 France, for we were at
West Point together"
All the Virgins congressman here las week
have returned to their homes. While Represent
alive O'Fcrrall was here he bought handsome
house. Senator Daniel had bought one before.
Thomas g. Reames, postoffcc inspector of mail
depredatons at Portland, Oregon, has resigned